RTEMS Shell Guide (6.87c8ac7-modified).

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© 2016, 2019 Chris Johns

© 2016, 2017 embedded brains GmbH & Co. KG

© 2016, 2017 Sebastian Huber

© 1988, 2017 On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR)

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• 1. Preface
  • 1.1. Acknowledgements
• 2. Configuration and Initialization
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Configuration
    • 2.2.1. Customizing the Command Set
    • 2.2.2. Adding Custom Commands
  • 2.3. Initialization
    • 2.3.1. Attached to a Serial Port
    • 2.3.2. Attached to a Socket
  • 2.4. Access Control
    • 2.4.1. Login Checks
    • 2.4.2. Configuration Files
    • 2.4.3. Command Visibility and Execution Permission
    • 2.4.4. Add CRYPT(3) Formats
  • 2.5. Functions
    • 2.5.1. rtems_shell_init - Initialize the shell
    • 2.5.2. rtems_shell_login_check - Default login check handler
• 3. General Commands
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Commands
    • 3.2.1. help - Print command help
    • 3.2.2. alias - add alias for an existing command
    • 3.2.3. cmdls - List commands
    • 3.2.4. cmdchown - Change user or owner of commands
    • 3.2.5. cmdchmod - Change mode of commands
    • 3.2.6. date - print or set current date and time
    • 3.2.7. echo - produce message in a shell script
    • 3.2.8. sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
    • 3.2.9. id - show uid gid euid and egid
    • 3.2.10. tty - show ttyname
    • 3.2.11. whoami - print effective user id
    • 3.2.12. getenv - print environment variable
    • 3.2.13. setenv - set environment variable
    • 3.2.14. unsetenv - unset environment variable
    • 3.2.15. time - time command execution
    • 3.2.16. logoff - logoff from the system
    • 3.2.17. rtc - RTC driver configuration
    • 3.2.18. i2cdetect - detect I2C devices
    • 3.2.19. i2cget - get data from an EEPROM like I2C device
    • 3.2.20. i2cset - write data to an EEPROM like I2C device
    • 3.2.21. spi - read and write simple data to an SPI bus
    • 3.2.22. exit - exit the shell
• 4. File and Directory Commands
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Commands
    • 4.2.1. blksync - sync the block driver
    • 4.2.2. cat - display file contents
    • 4.2.3. cd - alias for chdir
    • 4.2.4. chdir - change the current directory
    • 4.2.5. chmod - change permissions of a file
    • 4.2.6. chroot - change the root directory
    • 4.2.7. cp - copy files
    • 4.2.8. dd - convert and copy a file
    • 4.2.9. debugrfs - debug RFS file system
    • 4.2.10. df - display file system disk space usage
    • 4.2.11. dir - alias for ls
    • 4.2.12. fdisk - format disk
    • 4.2.13. hexdump - ascii/dec/hex/octal dump
    • 4.2.14. ln - make links
    • 4.2.15. ls - list files in the directory
    • 4.2.16. md5 - compute the Md5 hash of a file or list of files
    • 4.2.17. mkdir - create a directory
    • 4.2.18. mkdos - DOSFS file system format
    • 4.2.19. mknod - make device special file
    • 4.2.20. mkrfs - format RFS file system
    • 4.2.21. mount - mount disk
    • 4.2.22. mv - move files
    • 4.2.23. pwd - print work directory
    • 4.2.24. rmdir - remove empty directories
    • 4.2.25. rm - remove files
    • 4.2.26. umask - set file mode creation mask
    • 4.2.27. unmount - unmount disk
• 5. Memory Commands
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Commands
    • 5.2.1. mdump - display contents of memory
    • 5.2.2. wdump - display contents of memory (word)
    • 5.2.3. ldump - display contents of memory (longword)
    • 5.2.4. medit - modify contents of memory
    • 5.2.5. mfill - file memory with pattern
    • 5.2.6. mmove - move contents of memory
    • 5.2.7. malloc - obtain information on C program heap
• 6. RTEMS Specific Commands
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Commands
    • 6.2.1. rtems - RTEMS Details
    • 6.2.2. shutdown - Shutdown the system
    • 6.2.3. cpuinfo - print per-processor information
    • 6.2.4. cpuuse - print or reset per thread cpu usage
    • 6.2.5. stackuse - print per thread stack usage
    • 6.2.6. perioduse - print or reset per period usage
    • 6.2.7. profreport - print a profiling report
    • 6.2.8. wkspace - display information on executive workspace
    • 6.2.9. config - show the system configuration.
    • 6.2.10. itask - list init tasks for the system
    • 6.2.11. extension - display information about extensions
    • 6.2.12. task - display information about tasks
    • 6.2.13. queue - display information about message queues
    • 6.2.14. sema - display information about semaphores
    • 6.2.15. region - display information about regions
    • 6.2.16. part - display information about partitions
    • 6.2.17. object - display information about RTEMS objects
    • 6.2.18. driver - display the RTEMS device driver table
    • 6.2.19. dname - displays information about named drivers
    • 6.2.20. pthread - display information about POSIX threads
• 7. Dynamic Loader
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Commands
    • 7.2.1. rtl - Manager the RTL
• 8. Network Commands
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Commands
    • 8.2.1. netstats - obtain network statistics
    • 8.2.2. ifconfig - configure a network interface
    • 8.2.3. route - show or manipulate the ip routing table
    • 8.2.4. ping - ping a host or IP address
• 9. Function and Variable Index
• 10. Concept Index